Rule 01
No offer without a cargo behind it
Every offer traces to a supplier we have dealt with, a terminal that will confirm the product, or tonnage we can charter. Allocations we have not verified never leave the desk.
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A small desk that does one thing properly.
Nexus Oil Trading FZE was set up to do the unglamorous half of commodity trading well: read the specification, hold the laycan, inspect the cargo, and hand over a set of documents the bank accepts first time.
On the record
The licence, exactly as it reads.
Everything on this page can be checked against the register. The Hamriyah Free Zone Authority publishes an online verification service for every licence it issues, and we would rather you used it than took our word for anything.
- Operating name
- Nexus Oil Trading FZE
- Licence number
- 39836
- Type of licence
- Commercial
- Legal status
- Free Zone Establishment with Limited Liability
- Activities
- Import / export / trading of petroleum products · Crude oil trading abroad · Lubricants & grease
- Authority
- Hamriyah Free Zone Authority, Sharjah
- Registered office
- Office E2-112G-30, P6-ELOB, Hamriyah Free Zone, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- Remarks
- All local activities as per local rules and regulations
Why we exist
The market does not need another intermediary. It needs someone who answers.
Anyone who has spent a season in physical petroleum knows the pattern. An enquiry goes out. Twelve replies come back within the hour, eleven of them from parties with no product, no terminal relationship and no intention of ever being at the loading berth. Weeks disappear into documents that were never going to lead anywhere, and the buyer ends up back where they started — except later, and more cynical.
Nexus was founded on a narrow response to that. We keep the book small enough that every offer we send is one we can operate ourselves. If we cannot name the terminal, describe the tank and tell you who will inspect it, we do not send the offer. That costs us volume. It also means that when we do come back with a number, it is worth reading.
The company is new — the licence was issued in July 2026 — and we would rather say so than manufacture a history. What is not new is the work: sourcing, chartering, inspection, documentary credits and the operational grind of getting a parcel from a shore tank into a buyer's system without a claim at the end of it.
How we operate
Six rules the desk actually follows.
Not values on a wall. These are the decisions we have already made, so nobody has to relitigate them at eleven at night with a vessel on demurrage.
Rule 02
The specification is the contract
Grade, test method and limit go into the sale contract in full. A cargo either meets the table or it does not, and that question is settled by an inspector, not by argument.
Rule 03
Bad news travels first
Berth congestion, a failed sample, a delayed instrument — you hear it from us the day we hear it. Nothing about a slipping laycan improves by being discovered late.
Rule 04
Documents are checked before presentation
The full set is read against the credit line by line before it goes to the bank. A discrepancy found in our office costs an hour; one found at the counter costs a fortnight.
Rule 05
Compliance is not negotiable
Counterparties, vessels and destinations are screened against applicable sanctions regimes before a contract is signed. Some business simply does not get done, and that is the point.
Rule 06
One point of contact per deal
The person who quotes the cargo is the person who operates it and the person who answers when something goes sideways. No handovers, no re-explaining the trade to a new name.
Base of operations
Hamriyah Free Zone, Sharjah — chosen for the port, not the postcode.
Hamriyah is the second largest industrial free zone in the UAE and the only one on this coast built around a deep-water port with dedicated liquid-bulk terminals. Tank storage, blending capacity, drumming lines and a customs regime designed for re-export all sit inside the same fence.
Forty minutes east, Khor Fakkan and Fujairah open directly onto the Gulf of Oman, which means an eastbound or southbound cargo never has to transit the Strait of Hormuz. Forty minutes south, Jebel Ali handles the container leg for packed lubricants. It is a rare piece of geography, and it is the practical reason a company this size can quote credibly across four product families.
- Deep-water berths and liquid-bulk terminals inside the free zone
- Independent storage available at Hamriyah and Fujairah
- Re-export and cross-trade regime suited to a trading FZE
- Container capacity at Jebel Ali for drummed and IBC product
Compliance, HSE and counterparty screening
The checks that happen before a price is even discussed.
Trading petroleum out of a free zone carries obligations that arrive long before the first barrel does. We treat them as part of the commercial process rather than a form to be signed at the end.
- Know your counterparty
- Trade licence or incorporation documents, ownership structure, and confirmation of the end user and destination before contracting.
- Sanctions screening
- Counterparties, beneficial owners, vessels and discharge ports screened against applicable regimes. Anything unclear is declined rather than worked around.
- Cargo documentation
- Certificates of origin and quality, legalisation where the destination requires it, and a document set reconciled to the credit before presentation.
- Vessel vetting
- Age, class, P&I cover and inspection history reviewed on chartered tonnage; terminal acceptance obtained before the nomination is confirmed.
- Health, safety & environment
- Terminal and berth HSE rules observed without exception. Product is handled under the receiving facility's permit-to-work system, never around it.
- Records
- Contracts, inspection reports and retained samples archived for the full contractual claim period so a later question has an evidenced answer.
Working with us
What a counterparty gets, in practice.
One
Point of contact
The same person from indication through to document presentation. Your trade never gets re-explained to a stranger.
Daily
Operational updates
Berthing prospects, loading progress and document status, sent while a cargo is live — without you having to chase.
Full
Specification disclosure
The complete quality table on the offer, not a headline grade with the awkward parameters left off.
Open
Inspector nomination
You may nominate the independent inspector. We will meet the cost share agreed in the contract and share every report in full.
Check the licence. Then check the offer.
We would rather be verified than believed. Send us an enquiry and see how much of it comes back with a document attached.